Contents

1. Half-Title Page
2. Title Page
3. Frontispiece
4. Author’s Note
5. Rocket Man
6. 1. All-American Boy
7. 2. Up, Up, and Away
8. 3. Faster Than a Speeding Bullet
9. 4. Becoming an Astronaut
10. 5. The Star Sailors
11. 6. Mean Machines
12. 7. Into the Space Age
13. 8. Waiting Game
14. 9. The Mission
15. 10. Flying-by-Wire
16. 11. “Just the Normal Day in Space”
17. 12. One American Legend
18. Space Explorers
19. About the Author
20. Copyright